Retail sales and gift-giving are intense, sometimes
out-of-control, as evidenced on the day after
Thanksgiving, retail's so-called Black Friday.
The Holy Spirit of our embarassed Creator and
Father often delays the consequences of these
impassioned, excessive, unashamed spending
disorders.
Gift-giving appears as the altruistic motive to
passionately purchase durable goods, but the wild
behaviors, bursting into the store with hypertensive
panting, expose that these same personalities, in a
time of extreme national emergency, would literally,
shamefully fight to the death over merchandise, and
in some cases, these personalities would readily
devolve into hysterical looting.
The flow of financial passion from the heart is
documented by the Spirit; God's angels who guide
and protect us are always with us, writing a
biography unseen and never fully read except in
one's own conscience, made inadvertently alive and
introspective in a soulful consciousness discovered
in the realm of post-mortem immortality.
The pleasure of a conscience made sanctified by the
virtue of adequate giving contrasts greatly with the
conviction and torment of a shamed conscience
under judgment by an expose of selfishness, fraud,
negligence, impenitent debauchery, or capital crimes.
The flow of money is our most immediate, daily
opportunity to turn to the right and draw the
empathy and compassion of the Spirit. We may feel
displeasure or contempt for a panhandler due to the
disorder of a street behavior, but we have so many
legitimate recipients of philanthropy, including
friends and family who always react with reciprocal
gratitude and affection when given giftcards.
Wrath and correction, otherwise pending, may often
be forestalled and even cancelled due to the merit
and virtue of giving when linked to behavioral
modification and penitential purification.
God's Design for His People features this primary
virtue, the flow of giving from a sanctified,
incorruptible source of voluntary philanthropy. AMEN.







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